Colin Powell alibis himself on the Iraq War disaster

I can't really add anything to what Patrick Lang has to say about Colin Powell's public claim that he pushed for more troops for the Iraq invasion:

I don't know about other people but I am tired of folks who held high positions before the invasion of Iraq, who said nothing public before the operation commenced and who now claim that they knew better. If they knew better, if they knew that the inadequate troop list for the operation was a recipe for disaster, then why did they not protest, even unto the last desperate means of resignation? (Yes, I ask a lot of rhetorical questions.)

It wasn't rocket science, people. Anyone with a modicum of common sense knew better. You had to be willfully ignorant and determined to see the world through your own peculiarly Utopian prism not to know better.

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